CS Fire Monitor

If you're the kind of computer user who loves monitoring every aspect of your system, CS Fire Monitor is your new best friend. This freebie can monitor and graph just about everything your system does, from bandwidth to CPU usage, RAM use, and plenty more.

The program also delves deep into your system, and gives you an exceptional amount of detailed information about your hardware and software. For example, in addition to your CPU make, it tells you the speed, number of cores, the family type, serial number, cache information...and that's just a start. It offers similar information about a lot more of your hardware as well. In addition to monitoring, the program also will create reports about your hardware and bandwidth use.

If you're a geek for this kind of thing, you'll love CS Fire Monitor. Others won't get the point of it. It's the kind of software perfect for communing with your inner nerd as well as with your PC.

--Preston Gralla